Senior Biotechnology Syllabus 2011-2012
Week
Topic
Welcome
Description
Welcome to Xenia High School, Update on the room, and
Introduce Grow Lab Presentation
24-Aug
29-Aug
6-Sep
12-Sep
16-Sep
19-Sep
26-Sep
3-Oct
10-Oct
13-Oct
17-Oct
20-Oct
24-Oct
31-Oct
7-Nov
14-Nov
Plant Biotechnology
Start Chapter 10
Present Grow Lab Presentations; Plant parts and
pollination; Begin WFP and other plants for the BioRad
Cloning and Sequencing Series
Equipment Project; Writing an SOP
Technical Writing
Mitosis and Meiosis; Mono and dihybrid crosses; Chi
Plant Biotechnology;
Squared; Blood Typing
Genetics
Test: Chapter 10 Introduction to Plant Biotechnology and technical writing
Skills and Science Notes/Plant DNA extraction; Nucleic
Agricultural
Biotechnology; Plant DNA Acid Extraction Module BioRad Cloning and Sequencing
series
Extraction
Agricultural
Introduction to plant cell culture (Edvotek Lab 908)
Biotechnology; Intro to
Plant Cell Culture
Agricultural
Tissue Printing (Edvotek Lab 940)
Biotechnology; Tissue
Printing
Agricultural
Isolation of Chloro. Mito., and Extraction of DNA
Biotechnology:
(Edvotek 910); GAPDH PCR Module of BioRad Cloning
Techniques for the
and Sequencing Series
Isolation of plant
organelles
Test: Chapter 11 Agricultural Biotechnology
Agricultural
GMO Investigator BioRad
Biotechnology;
Transformation and
Recombination
Cincinnati Zoo
Field Trip
Agricultural
BioRad Cloning and Sequencing Series PCR Purification,
Biotechnology;
Ligation and Transformation
Transformation and
Recombination
End of 1st Quarter
Outline the fundamental steps in a genetic engineering
Transformation and
Recombination: Genetic procedure and give examples of genetically engineered
products
engineering (Chapter 8)
Transformation of E.coli with pGAL (Edvotek 221)
Transformation and
Recombination: Genetic
engineering (Chapter 8)
BioRad: pGLO
Transformation: pGLO
18-Nov
21-Nov
28-Nov
5-Dec
12-Dec
16-Dec
19-Dec
3-Jan
9-Jan
18-Jan
20-Jan
23-Jan
30-Jan
6-Feb
10-Feb
13-Feb
21-Feb
27-Feb
5-Mar
9-Mar
12-Mar
19-Mar
26-Mar
30-Mar
2-Apr
10-Apr
16-Apr
23-Apr
27-Apr
Test: Chapter 8 Production of Recombinant DNA Part 1
Scientifically communicate findings discovered during
Capstone Project/Flex
the capstone process.
BioRad: Ligation and Transformation Module
Transformation and
Recombination: Ligation
Scaling up of genetically engineered product and
Transformation and
verification of recombinant plasmid; BioRad Microbial
Recombination: Scaling
up, plasmid miniprep and Culturing Module
maxiprep
Transformation and
Miniprep verification of plasmid DNA; Aurum Plasmid
Recombination: Miniprep Mini Purification Kit
verification of plasmid
DNA
Test: Chapter 8 Production of Recombinant DNA part 2
Capstone/Flex
Paper Chromatography, thin layer Chromatography and
Chromotography
Dialysis
(Chapter 9)
Column Chromatography; BioRad Green Fluorescent
Chromotography
Protein Chromatography
End of 2nd Quarter
HPLC, GC, Mass Spec; Understanding Chromatographs
Chromatography
Test: Chapter 9 Bringing a Biotechnology Product to Market
Carbonation of Root Beer Lab
Fermentation
Fermentation of Corn to ETOH
Fermentation
BioRad: Biofuels
Fermentation
Test: Fermentation
Making Aspirin
Medical Biotechnology
Cholesterol Test Kit (Carolina HT-84-0495)
Medical Biotechnology
Cholesterol Diagnosis (Edvotek 118)
Medical Biotechnology
DNA Based Screening of Small Pox (Fisher AJS67190)
Medical Biotechnology
Test: Chapter 12 Biotechnology in Medicine
Advanced DNA
Microarray; Carolina DNA Chips: Genes to Disease Kit
Technology
End of 3rd Quarter
Advanced DNA
Designing Primers for PCR
Technology
Advanced DNA
PCR Project
Technology
Test: Chapter 13 Making DNA Molecules
Chapter 14 (Spring Break) Sequencing DNA Independent Unit
2D Gels; ELISA; Western Blot Sequencing DNA
Chapter 14
Working with the Sequencing and Bioinformatics Module
Bioinformatics
Working with the Sequencing and Bioinformatics Module
Bioinformatics
Test: Chapter 14 Advanced Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
Forensics
30-Apr
7-May
14-May
23-May
24-May
Forensics
Forensics
XHS Graduation
GCCC Recognition Night
for Seniors
Training Labs: Classifying Fingerprints, problem
solving,lifting fingerprints, analyzing handwriting, shoe
prints for height and identification
Crime Scene
Journal Article about the Crime, put together career
passports, and end of the year senior stuff
Test: Forensics